Big Savannah in mid-summer with fire sprouts of Sweet Bay
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Item information
- Title:
- Big Savannah in mid-summer with fire sprouts of Sweet Bay
- Description:
- Big Savannah in mid-summer with fire sprouts of Sweet Bay. Arundinaria cane; Pinus in background; From Natural Gardens (page 99): "[C]an successfully imitate the perennial herbs by partially burying their stems, to make possible survival. In the summer the numerous shoots arising from the ground make them appear as shrubs, but few observers would ever imagine these 'shrubs' to be trees fifty, eighty, or a hundred years old."
- Topics:
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Botany
- Subjects:
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Arundinaria cane
Grasses
Orange grass (Campulosus aromaticus)
Pine
Sweet bay (Magnolia virginiana)
- Original Format:
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Black and white lantern slide
- Extent:
- 3.25 x 4 in.
- Item identifier:
- 0021047
- Photographer:
- Wells, B. W. (Bertram Whittier), 1884-1978 more info on Wells, B. W. (Bertram Whittier), 1884-1978
- Created Date:
- to
- Genre:
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Landscape photographs
- Location:
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Big Savannah (N.C.)
- Digital Project:
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B. W. Wells
Source information
- Repository:
- Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Collection:
- B.W. Wells lantern slides (UA023.039) held by Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Note field:
- Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
- Rights:
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